Week Four
Saturday Round two of both shopping and Portobello Road Market. I bought a few things, ate some paella, and had an overall good time. I do wish I had so much more money though because I love that place. If I lived here, I would do so much shopping there on a regular basis. We ate at O’neills for dinner, so of course I had a Guinness. Then, later that night, I got all dolled up and went out with some of the girls. We were going to go out on a boat that was also a club on the River Thames, but that didn’t pan out so we ended up at another club. Then, I went to my room and passed out from exhaustion.
Friday Today was my shopping day. We only managed to hit not even half of Oxford Street, but I still spent a good amount of money. The last place we went to was Topshop, which was just so completely overwhelming – four huge floors of shopping. Then, we had dinner at Pizza Hut and headed back to the dorms. A few of us decided to watch Devil Wears Prada later that night, which was a good time.
Thursday We moved out of our dorms today into the ones right next door because of construction. Then, Candice, Steph, and I had to give our presentation on A Midsummer’s Nights Dream during our Shakespeare class today. We did alright considering that we only worked on it the night before after seeing the play. Then, for my Postcolonial Literature and Theory course, we went out with our professor for dinner in Brick Lane. It was delicious. Later that night, a group of us ladies went out to Leicester Square. Candice and I swear that we saw the actor who played Iago in the production of Othello we saw at The Globe – he was also in Notting Hill. Best of all, he was wearing pajama pants when we saw him. After this brush with fame, we had a couple of drinks at one club, then headed over to Zoo Bar. It was a fun night.
Wednesday After my midterm for my 20th Century English Novel course, we took a mini-tour of The Globe. While we were there, we we able to catch a glimpse of the actors of Love’s Labors Lost warm up. Then, we took part in a little acting workshop. My roommate from school, Alicia, met up with me after the tour with a couple of our friends from Michigan. She had just finished her study abroad program in Spain and was passing though. We walked along the Thames, then headed to the flat in South Kensington that our friends, Audrey and Sean, had rented out for the week while they were in London. Then, I had to head back to the dorms in order to make it to the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park for a production of A Midsummer’s Nights Dream (my favorite Shakespeare play). It wasn’t a bad production, though a bit more overtly comedic than I had seen it done before.
Tuesday Tonight, we saw Gaslight starring Rosamund Pike (who played Jane Bennet in the most recent Pride and Prejudice film). It was by far my favorite performance of those we have seen in London. It was in the Old Vic Theatre, which was beautiful and I believe Kevin Spacey is its artistic director.
Monday I woke up early for my last day in Ireland. Walked by myself down to St. Stephen’s Green, which is absolutely gorgeous, then I went over to Trinity College. Once the shops started to open, I did a little more shopping. I headed back around 10am to check out of the hostel. Our ferry left that afternoon and I napped for the majority of the ride. Also, on the train to London, we saw a guy who looked just like Elijah Wood. However, he had a ton of dandruff, sagged his pants so we could see his tighty whities, and was reading some Maxim-esque type of magazine called Nuts – very disturbing.
Sunday Day two in Dublin and loving it. Ashley and I ate breakfast in the church cafeteria. Then, once everyone was awake, the four of us headed out and ate lunch in the Henry Street area again, then we got sidetracked from sightseeing by a few hours of shopping. We managed to stop over by St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Patrick is my dad’s name, so that was fun and I took tons of pictures), then we were off to tour the Guinness Storehouse. I had, of course, the best Guinness of my life and bought tons of gifts from the shop (and again, tons of pictures). Then, we ate dinner at the Brazen Head and headed back to our hostel – where it was just four of us for the night, since the others left.
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